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“Hallee is an amazing person -- a person I am proud to be related to,” Prefontaine wrote. “She is also a person who just happens to have Autism. She has never let that small detail define who she is as a person-which is why I refuse to use it as something to describe her.”

Prefontaine said Hallee, who lives in Bangor, was excited for her 18th birthday last year, but that none of her friends showed up.

“Hallee sat at her party anxiously waiting for her friends to arrive so they could have fun, but Hallee's friends would never arrive. Not a single one,” she said. “Below is the picture of her celebrating alone - eating her birthday cake. My cousin is a beautiful young woman who will always have the mind of a child, so as you can imagine, she was heartbroken and beyond sad. She was hurt.”

Prefontaine hopes people will send her cousin birthday cards to make her 19th birthday in July much different. An address is listed in the post.